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It was an ordinary summer night in Cincinnati. My father and I were in the car after leaving a baseball game. We drove across the Roebling Bridge, over the Ohio River, and into Kentucky. The Reds had won in what had been a long night game so the only chili parlor open was the Dixie… Read More It’s Getting Chili in Cincinnati

When My sister remarried in 2004, she brought an Irishman to our table full of Italians. He quickly discovered that his favorite Italian food, spaghetti and meatballs, isn’t actually Italian. It is unlikely that a restaurant in Italy would offer this fare, with the exception of tourist traps looking to overcharge for a familiar experience… Read More On Top of Spaghetti

The grocery bag rustled as I stuffed the last orange in. I had nearly snagged it earlier when it popped off the high branch. The perfect golden specimen had slipped out of my hand and tumbled to the ground. “Almost time to head back,” my dad said. “Yep,” I said, looping my reins around my… Read More Does it Wash Out in the Water Or is it Always in the Blood

When we were assigned this project, I knew immediately I wanted to write about my sister. There was no hesitation. I mean, it was the obvious choice, aside from the easiest. Besides that, I figured it would be a chance to learn a little bit more about my sister and what she does for a… Read More Personal Chef

Whenever those three magical words, asopao de camarones, are merely whispered in any kitchen belonging to a hispanic family, those that are around that kitchen can expect something as close to reaching Heaven, Nirvana, Valhalla (insert favorite afterlife place here) as possible, specially if abuela (grandma) is cooking. It is its own event, like a… Read More You Ain’t Never Had a Soup Like This

Serves 4-5 The delicious dish for pasta lovers in need of a quick fix. This dish is not only easy to make when there is a hungry family or group with no plan, but it will also keep the kitchen clean. This recipe has been passed through generations of Italian families, but I got it… Read More The Rough Day-Hungry Family, Bolognese

In the current year, it seems that everyone is in a rush. A rush to get to work, a rush to get home, a rush to cook and eat, and a rush to get to bed to do it all over again. Currently, on Union Street in Wilmington, Delaware, all of the original properties are… Read More Cooking Up Tradition

When my parents got engaged, my grandmother wasn’t fond of the idea that my mom would be cooking for her son ‘until death do them part”. Out of all my mother’s qualities, cooking was not her most magnificent; at least in the early nineties. As the daughter-in-law of a Kentucky-raised woman who finely mastered… Read More Grandma’s Red Sauce

During a recent walk down the snack aisle of my neighborhood grocery store, a certain bag of unhealthy Herr’s potato chips caught my eye. A little distraught because of the healthy diet I have recently worked so hard to adopt, my guard went down and I could just about smell the goodness of the contents… Read More Good Old Bay

Childhood was a brief confluence of fantasy and reality. It started out with the rolling hills of our eight, wooded acres. It ran with our horses and dogs and jumped with the fish that our dogs hoped to catch. It rode the breeze that wafted unbroken fields of flowers in a neighborhood of five houses… Read More What She Left Us

About Me

The stories you see here are the culminations of semester-long projects of students in Kristin Winet’s ENG367P: Food Writing at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida. Read More